Hiring developers

How to get tech hiring right

Hew Ingram

Engineering lead, Applied

hew@beapplied.com www.beapplied.com

Top take home tips...

Check your job description

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Ditch the CV

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Use scoring criteria as much as possible

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Optimise your take home test

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Structured interviews only

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Sourcing - Most important job factors

Stack Overflow developer survey 2020

Sourcing

- Conferences/meetups

- CodeBar

- Dev blog

- Use the devs you have... Twitter, blog, talks

- Open source

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These pages are server rendered and use jQuery.
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What changes would you suggest to improve this load time

You and a colleague have been working on a new part of the site but you suspect you might have fallen behind.

Your colleague is off sick today and the rest of the team has asked for an update. What do you do?

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